Resources

Provides multi-media educational information, treatment center listings, and resources for scleroderma patients and caregivers. Offers an online discussion board, support groups, and local chapters to facilitate community connections. Promotes disease awareness, fosters advocacy efforts, and supports scientific research.

Serves as an informational source for affordable health-related resources. These include prescription programs, charitable clinics, diagnosis-based assistance, medical transportation, scholarships, camps, recreational opportunities, and government healthcare programs. Facilitates a drug discount card program.

Provides support and educational information for all impacted by rare, protein-spilling kidney disease. Offers virtual support groups, an online community, and peer mentoring for patients and caregivers.

Provides support, resources, and direct aid for eligible Michigan families impacted by cancer. Financial assistance helps offset living expenses (e.g., housing, utilities, insurance, childcare, transportation). Facilitates access to mental health services and grocery support options. Involved in advocacy efforts regarding the financial implications of a cancer diagnosis.

Supports programs to increase dental care access in New Mexico. Charitable options include an annual New Mexico Mission of Mercy no-cost oral health clinic, free denture clinic, and application for donated dental services statewide. Offers oral health education resources and listings of sliding-scale or Medicaid providers.

Manages a global blood stem cell and marrow donor registry. Offers support for blood cancer or blood disease patients and caregivers via educational resources, patient support navigators, peer mentoring, online patient communities, and telephone support groups. Transplant medical professionals can submit applications for patient grants to help offset unmet transplant-related costs (e.g., donor searches, medical travel, medical lodging). Advocates for legislative, public policy, and patient care initiatives.

Improves the dental health of North Carolina residents through community education and access to care programs. North Carolina Missions of Mercy (MOM) clinics provide free services for adults in need at annual two-day events. Supports Give Kids a Smile programs affording free pediatric dental care.

Promotes statewide dental initiatives to address access to care issues. North Dakota Mission of Mercy is a two-day event providing free adult and pediatric dental care at a large-scale venue. Smiles for Veterans is a free dental clinic for our nation’s heroes residing in North Dakota. Offers oral health educational information and low-cost dental clinic resources.

Provides free dental care at an annual two-day clinic for adults and children. Care is provided on a first-come, first-served basis.

Provides cancer educational resources including information pertaining to treatments, prevention, and support options.

Provides pediatric healthcare grants to help offset uncovered clinical and equipment needs, medical travel and lodging, and vehicle modifications. Grants are considered for families within the United States and through select international providers.

Lists resources for low-cost dental care throughout the state, including health centers, dental school clinics, and programs for special needs individuals. Offers oral health educational information.

Matches trained organ transplant recipients with candidates, new recipients, families, caregivers, and living organ donors for emotional support, encouragement, and sharing. Hosts virtual meetings throughout the year to provide ongoing educational opportunities for the transplant community.

Provides information, resources, and peer mentoring support for the transplant community. Facilitates virtual educational group meetings, as well as community events.

Connects parents of children or adults with disabilities or special health needs to experienced support parents for peer mentoring and emotional encouragement. Matches are facilitated by affiliated local groups. Sponsors educational and support events for the P2P USA community of families and volunteers.

Provides resources, case management, educational information, and insurance literacy for individuals with serious health conditions. TotalAssist program helps with prescription and healthcare costs for qualified applicants. Condition-specific funds assist with ancillary needs (e.g., general living expenses, medical travel, relocation lodging). Awards scholarships to eligible students.

Provides medical, practical, and wellness educational information for cancer patients and caregivers. Offers comprehensive, categorical resource listings. Facilitates a peer mentoring program, matching individuals with similar-type cancer survivors.

Provides an online story sharing platform for rare disease patients, caregivers, and advocates. Offers disease- and condition-specific educational information.

Serves as an adaptive fashion marketplace serving adults and children. Offers a Help Hope Live partner discount of 10% off with code: HelpHopeLive10.

Helps Pennsylvania senior citizens and members of the disability community to identify and obtain assistive devices and services. Offers financial education, learning resources, and flexible loan opportunities to afford such technology and service needs.

Provides financial assistance to qualifying Pennsylvania residents with cystic fibrosis (CF) to help with hardship needs (e.g., medical costs, housing, utilities, automobile repairs). Offers academic scholarships to help students with CF achieve their higher education goals.

Mails care packages and inspirational cards nationwide to nominated individuals to offer hope and encouragement during their cancer battle.

Supports burn survivors and caregivers through peer mentoring, virtual support groups, and online communities. Provides the burn community with virtual survivorship toolkits, resources, and advocacy opportunities.

Supports children and teens, ages 6-18, who are impacted by a parent or caregiver’s cancer. Facilitates in-person (Illinois) and virtual (nationwide) programs including youth activity-based peer support groups, recreational gatherings, parent webinars, and an online resource library. Distributes support kits to guide family conversations surrounding a cancer diagnosis.

Provides financial and emotional support for the entire pediatric cancer community. Issues gift cards and encouraging letters for families facing a new diagnosis or relapse. Eligible families with children receiving treatment can also apply for assistance with general living expenses (e.g., rent, mortgage, car payments, gas cards, groceries, utilities).

Provides grant funding to individuals with spinal cord injuries. Financial aid helps offset costs associated with assistive devices, durable medical equipment, and physical therapy.

Provides educational information, peer mentoring, advocacy opportunities, and resources for all impacted by pulmonary hypertension (PH). Facilitates a variety of topic- and population-specific support groups, available in-person, virtually, and via Facebook. Offers bereavement support materials and groups.

Provides support and community connections for people with spinal cord injuries, neurological disorders, and mobility impairments in Southern California. Programs include accessible arts workshops, wellness and recreation groups, an online community, virtual support groups, educational videos, and a wheelchair donation program.

Sends care packages to those living with cancer in Pennsylvania. Facilitates holiday gift giving, family photography services, support groups, special events, mentorship, and respite weekends for those residing near their cancer community center in Central Pennsylvania.

Raises pediatric cancer awareness and offers funding for eligible families to help with associated costs (e.g., medical bills, mortgage, rent, utilities, medical lodging, medical travel). Supports clinical research initiatives and champions advocacy for increased federal funding. Honors young patients and survivors with spotlights and encouragement.

Offers scholarships to students with spinal cord injuries. Peer mentors provide ongoing support, guidance, and transitional help (e.g., housing, dining, campus healthcare, social opportunities, academics, government services, funding streams).

Educates and empowers the rare disease community with advocacy, legislative, and public policy initiatives impacting diagnoses, treatments, and cures. Offers resources, academic scholarships, advocacy travel stipends, a young adult rare representative program, and a visual arts contest.

Encourages rare disease caregivers with wellness and mental health support and resources. Facilitates virtual support groups, self-care workshops, an online Facebook group, and a community of supporters.

Issues emergency needs grants to individuals and families in crisis. Examples include housing expenses, utilities, general living expenses, medical or rehabilitative needs, assistive or adaptive equipment, and home or vehicle modifications.

Supports children with special needs and their families through Western and Central Pennsylvania pediatric equipment and medical supply donation closets. Organizes local special events for families. Facilitates a Facebook support and resource group for nationwide special needs caregivers.

Supports bereaved families who have suffered the loss of a child, under age 13, with financial aid for outstanding medical bills or funeral expenses.

Creates adaptive fashionable clothing for individuals of all abilities. Issues a Help Hope Live partner discount of 15% off with code: HHL

Rehabilitates homes and community spaces in need of repairs or modifications for designated populations (e.g., senior citizens, veterans, people with disabilities, women-headed households, disaster survivors). No-cost repairs are performed by nationwide affiliate chapters.

Provides multi-disciplinary residential, day treatment, outpatient, and home and community neurorehabilitative services for adult and pediatric clients nationwide. Eligible diagnoses include brain injury, stroke, amputation and limb loss, spinal cord injury, and neurological conditions.

Provides multi-media educational information, wellness resources, virtual recreational activities, special events, organ donor awareness, and advocacy opportunities for the kidney disease community. Also offers a peer support hotline and virtual support groups.

Helps facilitate living donor kidney transplant matches. Provides recipient and donor education, navigation of the transplant process, hands-on support, and financial assistance for donors (e.g., peer visitation, overnight hospital volunteers, transportation, lost wages, convalescent care, caregiver food and lodging).

Supports people with cancer and their families through in-person and virtual retreats and recreational events. Facilitates the gifting of wagons for pediatric cancer patients, tablets to facilitate telemedicine appointments, and self-care gift boxes for adult patients and caregivers.

Offers peer connections and support for families impacted by pediatric cancer or other chronic illnesses, as well as bereaved families. Facilitates in-person retreats in Maine and Massachusetts, along with ongoing attendee virtual support groups, recreational events, and grief and end-of-life support.

Promotes organ donor awareness and facilitates college scholarship programs for the pediatric organ transplant community. When funding allows, assistance is awarded to eligible families in the form of gift cards for medical travel and groceries.

Provides financial aid and peer mentoring to individuals with spinal cord injuries and disorders and their families. Grants are available for uncovered expenses (e.g., medical relocation, mobility equipment, therapy devices, alternative or holistic program fees).

Offers comprehensive support for veterans, active military members, first responders, and their families. Provides financial grants, assistive and adaptive equipment and technologies, home modifications, service dogs, and academic scholarships. Facilitates comprehensive wellness and recreational programs.

Promotes educational information, resources, and storytelling to support and inform prospective living kidney donors.

Sells new and used wheelchair accessible vans with nationwide delivery and service programs. Provides specialized resources and rebates for veterans. Offers a Help Hope Live partner rebate of $1,000.

Provides medical lodging and support for families requiring inpatient and outpatient care at pediatric hospitals worldwide. Offers dedicated family-centered housing facilities, in-hospital respite rooms, and mobile healthcare education and access programs.

Supports the needs of family caregivers with encouragement, educational information, and advocacy. Offers formal coaching programs, self-care workshops, and academic scholarships. Provides special support for military caregivers including a dedicated virtual support group.

Offers support, encouragement, and resources for people with spinal cord injuries. Provides grant funding to help offset injury-related expenses for individuals in select regions of Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia (e.g., durable medical equipment, physical rehabilitation, home or vehicle modifications, mental health services).

Offers educational information, helpful tools, and emotional coping strategies for families impacted by pediatric illnesses and injuries, including targeted sibling support. Distributes home-sewn cheerful pillowcases to children’s hospitals nationwide.

As a program of Expect Miracles Foundation, provides young adult cancer survivors, ages 21-39, with grants to help offset the financial impact of cancer. Funding categories include family planning and general financial assistance (e.g., educational costs, rent or mortgage, one-time bill payment).

Offers topic-specific educational information and resources for those with spinal cord injuries and their caregivers.

Provides no-cost dental, vision, and medical care for adults and children in the Seattle area. This annual four-day clinic event is produced by the Seattle Center Foundation in partnership with other organizations, non-profits, businesses, agencies, and volunteers.

Sends monthly greeting cards to cancer patients for support and encouragement. Cards can be sent from the time of diagnosis through survivorship.

Facilitates international medically supervised camps, family retreats, sibling camps, adaptive winter sports opportunities, in-hospital programming, and bereavement camps for children and families impacted by pediatric chronic illnesses. Suggests fun activities and caregiving tips outside the camp setting.

Offers educational information, support, and resources for all impacted by rare neuroimmune disorders (e.g., acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, acute flaccid myelitis, MOG antibody disease, neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder, optic neuritis, transverse myelitis). Facilitates a family camp, support groups, peer mentoring, and an online discussion community. Prioritizes advocacy and scientific research initiatives.

Coordinates free volunteer pilot flights for individuals to access diagnostic, treatment, or follow-up medical care. A companion program, PALS for Patriots, donates air transportation for veterans and military personnel to acquire service dogs, receive medical care, participate in post-traumatic stress programs, or attend adaptive retreats.

Designs adaptive clothing to support individuals of all abilities. Offers a Help Hope Live partner discount of 10% – contact Help Hope Live for promotional code.